The story of the love that ended an empire In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 汤姆•霍兰（Tom Holland）英国著名历史学家，著有多部畅销作品，尤其擅长古希腊罗马历史写作。《王朝》一书的前作《卢比孔河》（Rubicon）获塞缪尔•约翰逊奖提名，并荣获2004年赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼历史学奖，《波斯战火》（Persian Fire）获2006年朗西曼奖。霍兰曾翻译了希罗多德的《历史》，并为英国广播公司（BBC）改编了荷马、修昔底德、维吉尔等人的作品。他于2007年荣获古典协会奖，该奖主要授予“在促进古希腊罗马语言、文学及文明之研究上做出突出贡献的学者”。 【译者简介】 严华容，西南政法大学法律英语学士，历史迷与语言迷，精通英语与西语，译有《来份杂碎：中餐在美国的文化史》。

Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors. Dynasty continues Rubicon's story, opening where that book ended: with the mur...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 汤姆•霍兰（Tom Holland）英国著名历史学家，著有多部畅销作品，尤其擅长古希腊罗马历史写作。《王朝》一书的前作《卢比孔河》（Rubicon）获塞缪尔•约翰逊奖提名，并荣获2004年赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼历史学奖，《波斯战火》（Persian Fire）获2006年朗西曼奖。霍兰曾翻译了希罗多德的《历史》，并为英国广播公司（BBC）改编了荷马、修昔底德、维吉尔等人的作品。他于2007年荣获古典协会奖，该奖主要授予“在促进古希腊罗马语言、文学及文明之研究上做出突出贡献的学者”。 【译者简介】 严华容，西南政法大学法律英语学士，历史迷与语言迷，精通英语与西语，译有《来份杂碎：中餐在美国的文化史》。

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

Peter Harrison provides an account of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge. He shows how the approaches to the study of nature that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were directly informed by theological discussions about the Fall of Man and the extent to which the mind and the senses had been damaged by that primeval event. Scientific methods, he ...(展开全部)

Peter Harrison provides an account of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge. He shows how the approaches to the study of nature that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were directly informed by theological discussions about the Fall of Man and the extent to which the mind and the senses had been damaged by that primeval event. Scientific methods, he ...(展开全部)

In 1970, Chris Bonington and his now-legendary team of mountaineers were the first climbers to tackle a big wall at extreme altitude. Their target was the south face of Nepal's Annapurna: 12,000 feet of steep rock and ice leading to a 26, 454-ft. summit. As serious armchair climbers will tell you, Annapurna South Face is better than all but a handful of equally gripping clas...(展开全部)

Eileen Chang is now recognized as one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, though she was completely erased from official histories in chinese mainland. These previously unpublished, semi-autobiographical novels depict in gripping detail her childhood years in Tianjin and Shanghai, as well as her student days in Hong Kong during World War II, and shed light on the constructi...(展开全部)

On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the British Commissioner in charge insisted, “No vestige will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Moghuls rests.” Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last Mughal Emperor, was a mystic, an accomplished poet and ...(展开全部)